70-FEDL. IMPLEMENTATION CONVENTIONS FOR ASC X12 TRANSACTION; 3010 REWORK 997 -- REVISION 1 ET.AL.; The Joint Federal/DoD Communications, Control and Security Functional Working group is updating standard implementation conventions to be used by the Federal Government in transmitting electronic data using ANSI X12 Version 3010, 3040, 3050, and 3060. Federal Implementation Conventions for ASC X12 transaction 3010 Rework and Federal 3040 997 -- Revision 1, Federal 3050 997 -- Revision 1, and Federal 3060 997 -- Revision 1 are available for public comment. These documents are available in electronic format from the World Wide Web (WWW) at htp://www.antd.nist.gov/fededi and from anonymous FTP at snad.ncsl.nist.gov/pub/fededi/CCSFWG. The FTP login is anonymous and your E-Mail address should be entered as the password. Electronic comments are preferred and should be addressed to ccsfwg@itsi.disa.mil and jp.favreau@nist.gov. The public comment period closes March 21, 1997 (or 30 days from the date of publishing) Contact Jean-Philippe Favreau EDI Standards Management Program, Attn: Joint Federal/DoD Communications, Control and Security Functional Working group Computer Systems Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Technology Bldg, Room B217, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, Tel: (301) 975-3634

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